Edwin Muir

A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.

Six years after Edwin Muir 's death, WM (as well as editing his Collected Poems) issued Living with Ballads, a study of the oral poetic tradition in Scotland, which he had planned but had left unfinished.

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

Though this is technically autobiography, she perhaps tells more about her husband than herself; Aileen Christianson , in her entry on WM in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, calls it more rightly a...

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to from St Andrews to Edinburgh after Edwin obtained a job with the British Council , organizing activities and lectures for foreign allies housed in the city.

After the war Willa and Edwin Muir moved back to Prague (where they had lived briefly in 1921-2) when Edwin was appointed Director of the city's British Institute (funded by the British Council ).

Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.

After a year in Italy, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to Scotland, this time to Dalkeith, near Edinburgh where Edwin became warden of Newbattle Abbey College .

After their year in the United States, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to England and settled at Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, near Cambridge.

Willa and Edwin Muir , neither of whom had ever left the British Isles before, moved to Prague.

Willa and Edwin Muir settled in a small cottage at Penn in Buckinghamshire, without eletricity, gas, or a sewage system; they did not stay long.

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to the Orkney Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland (Edwin's native place).

RF has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore , A. S. Byatt , and Elaine Feinstein (who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the...

In 1938, EMM 's name appeared in an early number of Kriticky Mesicnik, a Czech literary periodical edited by Václav Černý (reprinted in 1972 and 1992), in a list of British writers including Rosamond Lehmann

WM , a twentieth-century Scotswoman, wrote in fiction and non-fiction about gender inequality, patriarchy, and the repressiveness of Calvinism, but never defined herself as a feminist. She was alert to the devaluing of women's work...